{"id":120591,"date":"2025-05-21T19:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120591\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T19:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T19:33:11","slug":"barcelona-defender-jules-kounde-out-of-frances-nations-league-squad-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/120591\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona defender Jules Kounde out of France\u2019s Nations League squad due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"mhDazy\">Barcelona defender Jules Kounde has been left out of the France squad for the Nations League finals due to injury.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3Xvzxu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/5\/1\/24421599\/barcelona-share-jules-kounde-injury-update-after-defender-forced-out-of-inter-clash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kounde has been ruled out with a hamstring injury<\/a> that has seen him miss the end of Barcelona\u2019s domestic season.<\/p>\n<p id=\"YEu6jK\">He will also sit out international duty with Didier Deschamps\u2019s side due to the injury, meaning he\u2019ll miss France\u2019s semi-final tie with Spain.<\/p>\n<p id=\"CiMwCZ\">The winners of the tie will progress to the final and take on either Germany or Portugal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">  LA LISTE POUR LE FINAL 4 !  <\/p>\n<p>Voici les 25 Bleus convoqu\u00e9s pour le dernier carr\u00e9 de la Ligue des Nations, avec des nouveaux visages, et des retours   <\/p>\n<p>05\/06 : Demi-finale   Espagne     <br \/>08\/06 : Finale ou petite finale   Allemagne    ou Portugal   <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FiersdetreBleus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FiersdetreBleus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mDHooD8tXL\">pic.twitter.com\/mDHooD8tXL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Equipe de France \u2b50\u2b50 (@equipedefrance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/equipedefrance\/status\/1925160430432895000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 21, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"nOunnl\">Kounde may be disappointed at missing out but his injury does mean he will finally get a break from football over the summer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ttSz83\">The defender has played almost constantly for club and country over the last year or so and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/2025\/4\/7\/24402442\/jules-kounde-makes-it-100-games-in-a-row-as-barcelona-defender-continues-incredible-streak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hit 100 consecutive games back in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"1fenbP\">Barcelona\u2019s right-back now has the chance to take some time out to recover fully and get a break before returning to action with his club side in pre-season.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona defender Jules Kounde has been left out of the France squad for the Nations League finals due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[48427,199,53811,48430,48428,53809,15273,2000,299,36,163,25563,16310,53810,6695,9197,3577,19335,2955,46031,6093],"class_list":{"0":"post-120591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-barca","9":"tag-barcelona","10":"tag-barcelona-internationals","11":"tag-barcelona-team-news","12":"tag-blaugranes","13":"tag-defender","14":"tag-due","15":"tag-eu","16":"tag-europe","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-front-page","19":"tag-injury","20":"tag-jules","21":"tag-kounde","22":"tag-league","23":"tag-nations","24":"tag-of","25":"tag-out","26":"tag-s","27":"tag-squad","28":"tag-to"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114547498046797459","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}